Hi, I have added a section 'How to use this list for effective collaboration' onUser:Tinucherian/Indians WPpage to see if we can put this list to really good use, pl give your thoughts on the same and we can take it further from there. Thanks.Vjdchauhan(talk)18:40, 6 January 2009 (UTC).[reply]
I found you at the now defunctLeague of copyeditors,and I am really hoping that you can help the article. The article failedan FACmostly because of irregularities in citation format. But, it also needs a brush up on the copy and a proof reading job. Sorry for dropping in uninvited, but would you consider helping it, please?Aditya(talk•contribs)00:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 1 – June 2009
Iravan,the son of Arjuna, is now our 85thgood article.How do we know this? Since last year, more processes have been automated, increasing productivity.Article alertsupdate the project withwhat's happeningto India-related articles, from copyright violations to featured article candidates.
Currently,11,093 Indian articlesneed images. Please improve these pages, especially if you enjoy photography! We look forward to more contributions from you. To get started, go to thenoticeboard.»
From the editors…
Thelast newsletterwas written a year ago. In June 2008,Indian Premier Leaguewas "hot" on Wikipedia, but the article about this year'sIPLhas attracted 477 editors, or 53% more than the previous year! Even the number of articlesin the scope of our projectjumped by a whopping 18,500+ articles in an year. The 3.2-year-oldIndia quizcontinues to attract old and new Wikipedians, so join in the fun!
Wikipedians are organizing ameetup in Bangaloreon July 4 or 5. If you are interested, head over to the page and add your name! Topics of discussion include Indian language editions of Wikipedia andWikimedia India.
"Whilethis issuehas been resolved, one asks the question – what happens when there is a conflict of opinions? What about a Wikipedia entry on India and Pakistan, or the LTTE and the Tamils? Who can edit? Will the information be true? "writes B. Narasimhan ofMiD DAYas deeper implications of theScientology arbitration case,1reminding us of the core principles ofverifiabilityand theneutral point of view.
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WikiProject India Newsletter, Volume IV, Issue 2 – July 2009
A prolific editor andadministrator,Bhadaniis among the top ten Wikipedians bynumber of editsacross the English Wikipedia. Congratulations to Bhadani for also making the most number of edits amongIndian Wikipedians!
Wikipedia'sIndia quizremains a hotspot of the community by continuing to attract old and new Wikipedians. You are invited to join in and have fun!
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Hello Vishnava! Thank you for your contributions. I am abotalerting you that8of the articles that you created are tagged asUnreferenced Biographies of Living Persons.Thebiographies of living personspolicy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensureverifiability,all biographies should be based onreliable sources.If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current13article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the{{unreferencedBLP}}tag. Here is the list:
WP:IND Newsletter is back! It's been nearly a year since the last edition, but we hope to bring out issues on a more regular basis now. The India Wikiproject was set up to increasing coverage of India-related topics on Wikipedia, and over the past few months the focus has been on improvingarticle quality.A number of the project'sfeatured articlesunderwentfeatured article reviewsover the past year. Of these,DarjeelingandFlag of Indiasurvived the review process, while the rest were demoted. During the same period,Gangtok,Harbhajan Singh,Darjeeling andMysorewere featured on the main page respectively on August 20, September 17, November 6 and December 29, 2009. Meanwhile, articles on topics as diverse asPolitical history of Mysore and Coorg (1565–1760),Marwari horseandIravanwere promoted as featured articles, and respectively appeared on the main page on March 25, May 17 and May 28, 2010. Consequently, the number of FA-class articles under the project's scope dropped from 67 in August 2009 to 63 in June 2010. The number ofgood articles,however, saw a more than 40% increase, from 91 to 130 during the same period, while the number offeatured listssaw a 33% increase from 12 to 16.
Due to the recent policy changes regarding unreferencedBiographies of Living People(BLPs), an effort was started in January 2010 to source all unreferenced BLPs coming under Wikiproject India. 1200 such articles were identified initially and more were added to the list later. Due to the sourcing effort, the number of Indian unreferenced BLPs is down to565currently. During February-April 2010, There was alarge scale disruptionofKeralarelated articles by aThrissurbased IP vandal. Editing from a dynamic IPBSNLconnection, the vandal changed dates of birth, death and ages of a number ofMalayalamandTamilfilm actors. Later he added a few international biographies to his list. He also marked some living people likeArvind Swamyas dead. A month long range block was imposed on his IP range two times and each time he came back to vandalise dates once the block expired. Currently the range has been blocked for three months till September 11, 2010.
This picture, shot in India, won theCommons:Picture of the Yearcontest 2009. Translations of the description in Indian languages are solicited.
Wikipedians in Bangalore have been organisingperiodic meetupsover the past year, in collaboration with theCentre for Internet and Society.Thenext meetupis scheduled for July 18, 2010. Indian and other Wikipedians from all Wikipedias in various languages are welcome to attend.
A discussion is underwayhereto reach a consensus regarding the use of Indian number names (lakh,croreetc.) in Wikipedia articles. Please participate and add your comments.
Some unintended vandalism is going on at the Assamese Wikipedia by thesole active editor.This is a request for Assamese-conversant Wikipedians tohelp resolve the issue.
A discussion is in progressherein order to determine whether non-Western (including Indian) forms of classical music should be referred to by the nomenclature ofart musicinstead ofclassical music.Please participate and add your comments.
Watchlist theArticles for Deletions pagefor India related discussions. Opinions from more Indian Wikipedians are required in many of the discussions.
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After a missed issue, the WP:IND newsletter is back on track to being a regular bimonthly feature. The Indian WikiProject has seen plenty of online and off-line action, both in English as well as other Indian languages, and we now have a bigger, better format that intends to feature content and news from the English as well as other Indian language Wikipedias.
Reaching out to Indians has been the theme of the Indian Wikiproject over the past couple of months, aiming to involve a greater number of Indians in editing both the English and Indian language Wikipedias. To this end, efforts to set upthe Indian chapter of Wikimediahave moved into their final stages, and registration of the society is currently pending. An effort is underway to push for "WikiMarathons" at meetups, where attendees will be encouraged to edit the English and/or Indian language Wikipedias. This is intended to popularise Wikipedia editing among the general public. In addition, abotto post DYK's from the Indian Wikiproject toTwitterwas created and launched byUser:Logicwiki.
What's New?
Regrettably, the number of Featured Articles has dropped from 63 in June to 58 at the end of October 2010. Several FAs came up for review and were delisted, whileFundamental Rights, Directive Principles and Fundamental Duties of Indiawas saved. Meanwhile,Chalukya Dynastyappeared on the main page on July 9, 2010. Hearteningly, the number of Good Articles increased from 130 to 136 during the same period, while the number of Featured Lists remained constant at 16.
The date change vandal mentioned briefly in theprevious issuemade a reappearance when the range block on his IP range expired in September. Consequently the block was extended till September 2011.
In October there was a heateddiscussionin the India project noticeboard regarding the copyright status of the Indian party symbols. The discussion was triggered by the deletion ofWiki San Roze's party symbol images byHammersoftas copyright violations. No resolution was reached, partly because of our inability to explain to Hammersoft how election symbols in India differ from party logos. Comments are requested from anyone with a background in Indian copyright law to clarify this issue.
TheBengali Wikisource,which contains the literary works of many prominent writers of Bengali language including Rabindranath Tagore, has crossed the 5,000 pages milestone. According toList of Wikisourcepage, Bengali Wikisource is now at rank 21 among 56 Wikisource based on number of content pages.
The uploading of Tamil technical words donated byTamil Virtual Universityto theTamil Wiktionarywas completed in October. The words were donated by theGovernment of Tamil Nadudue to lobbying efforts by Tamil Wikipedians during the runup to theWorld Classical Tamil Conference 2010(WCTC) in June. Nearly 70,000 words were uploaded increasing the word count in Tamil Wiktionary from 1,20,000+ to 1,90,000+. This has brought Tamil to the 10th place (from 17) in the list oflargest wiktionariesand has earned it a place in theWiktionary front page logo.In addition, Tamil Wikipedians set up a stall at the WCTC and introduced Tamil Wiki projects to people from all walks of life.
TheHindi Wikipediaand its sister wiki projects migrated to the new vector interface on September 1, 2010. In addition, Hindi is the first (and so far the only) Indian language to be incorporated into theWikiBhashatranslation and contribution toolkit developed byMicrosoft Research.
MumbaiandDelhiheld their first meetups in September, where Wikimedia Board members Barry Newstead andBishakha Dattamet up with Wikipedians and other interested members of the public in these cities. A month later,Hyderabadalso held its first meetup.
Arun Ram,Shiju Alexand Barry Newstead releasing the Wikimedia India community newsletter at the nineteenth Bangalore meetup on 24 September 2010.
Wikipedians in Bangalore continued their tradition of meeting up regularly at theCentre for Internet and Society,with thenineteenth meetupin September featuring Barry and Bishaka as attendees, and marking the release of thecommunity newsletter.Along with Delhi and Mumbai, Bangalore is reported to be one of the three cities in contention for the Indian office of the Wikipedia Foundation.
The firstWikimarathon,where Wikipedians and members of the public were encouraged to contribute to Wikimedia projects onsite, was held simultaneously at the meetups inBangaloreandChennaion November 14, 2010. Wikipedians inDelhialso held a meetup the same day.
The Malayalam Wikipedia held several academies in different parts of Kerala over the past few months.
This interesting discussionon the quality of editing in India-related articles has been underway for on the noticeboard a few days. Feel free to join in and express your opinion.
If you've just joined, add your name to the Members section of Wikipedia:WikiProject India. You'll get a mention in the next issue of the Newsletter and get it delivered as desired. Also, please include your own promotions and awards in future issues. Don't be shy!
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This newsletter incorporates content from the WikiMedia India Community Newsletter, September 2010.
Looking forward to more contributions from you!
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Hello friends, we are a number of editors from WikiProject India have got together to assess the many thousands of articles under the stewardship of the project, and we'd love to have you, a fellow member, join us. These articles requireassessment,that is, the addition of a WikiProject template to the talk page of an article, assessing it for quality and importance and adding a few extra parameters to it.
As of March 11, 2012, 07:00 UTC, WikiProject India has 95,998 articles under its stewardship. Of these 13,980 articles are completely unassessed (both for class and importance) and another 42,415 articles are unassessed for importance only. Accordingly, aTag & Assess 2012drive-cum-contest has begun from March 01, 2012 to last till May 31, 2012.
If you are new to assessment, you can learn the minimum about how to evaluate fromPart One of the Assessment Guide.
Part Two of the Guidewill help you learn to employ the full functionality of the talk page template, should you choose to do so.
You can sign up on theTag & Assess page.There are a number of awards to be given in recognition of your efforts. Come & join us to take part in this exciting new venture. You'll learn more about India in this way.
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the{{proposed deletion/dated}}notice, but please explain why in youredit summaryor onthe article's talk page.
There's a voting going onhere.It needs to close, but consensus is not certain. We need more participation. The issues can't remain without a resolution. Please, check it out.Closure of the discussion has started.(refresh)Please, hurry.nafSadhdidsay14:10, 9 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]
You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the{{proposed deletion/dated}}notice, but please explain why in youredit summaryor onthe article's talk page.
Hello Vishnava! Thank you for your contributions. I am abotalerting you that8of the articles that you created are tagged asUnreferenced Biographies of Living Persons.Thebiographies of living personspolicy requires that all personal or potentially controversial information be sourced. In addition, to ensureverifiability,all biographies should be based onreliable sources.If you were to bring these articles up to standards, it would greatly help us with the current13article backlog. Once the articles are adequately referenced, please remove the{{unreferencedBLP}}tag. Here is the list:
